BeerSmith 4 released

General Homebrew Discussion
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I just learned that a new version of BeerSmith has been released. I am on version 3, which is very glitchy on macOS. I am hesitant to upgrade because I don’t want to trade a glitchy version for potentially an even glitchier version, despite the new features.

If any less risk-averse Mac users try version 4, I would be grateful if you shared your experience with it, namely with its stability. Cheers.

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He has a lot of info on his site, which I actually check regularly cause he gets some good interviewees on. https://www.youtube.com/@MrBeersmith/videos

I don’t use Beersmith personally, but the way hes described beersmith 4 I think he has tried hard to keep up with new features and how people brew these days

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Good interviewees…then there’s me!

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i heard yours recently and it was a good overview with recent updates on belgian beers, though i listened to you in the past and on experimental brewing so i heard some of it before.

hope your health is going well

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Pretty good, thank you!

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I might be wrong, but I believe the new installation of BS4 will not uninstall the previous version. You can always send an email to Brad and confirm.

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It didn’t on my Windows machine.

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@brewdood I’ve only used BeerSmith 2, 3, and now 4 over many years for Mac OS and its update, and have never found it to be glitchy. I’m curious, what kinds of issues do you have?

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Issues:

  • Preview pane blanks out.
  • File > Print freezes the app, or sometimes prints just a blank page. (Doing “Print preview” first works fine.)
  • Clicking between folders freezes on the last-clicked folder after a few clicks. (I get a popup error: “Unhandled Exception”. Cool, thanks Brad!)
  • General crashes.

The freezes are not the app or the OS simply thinking. Quitting and restarting the app restores functionality, but only temporarily. I’m on an M3 Max/36GB RAM MBP. It’s not a hardware limitation.

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BA4 Is a stand-alone version. You can import BS3 recipes into BS4. Working well so far on Mac. Full disclosure: I used BS3 when I first started all grain brewing but switched to Brewfather after a year. I have been recreating a BF recipe in BS4 so that I can learn it. I found something that was not working the way I expected and posted about it on the BS forum. Got a quick response and got it sorted out. I had direct responses from Brad Smith on an other issue. So in summary, I’m feeling that it’s pretty stable and tech support has been pretty good….. SO FAR.

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